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SOUNDING
TRANSFORMATION:
Created and Directed by Ann Dyer
Featuring the Vak Choir and Instrumental Ensemble
Performed in Conjunction with the Exhibition Yoga: Art of Transformation
Thursday, April 3 6-9pm • San Francisco Asian Art Museum
FREE with museum access ($5 after pm)
Sounding Transformation is a live, site-specific sound installation springing out of yoga’s rich sonic history. Created by Dyer, especially for the exhibition Yoga: Art of Transformation to be performed by her Vak Choir and Instrumental Ensemble, Sounding Transformation transforms the richly visual exhibition into a multi-sensory, at times even visceral, experience.
Throughout yogic history sound vibration has been recognized as the foundation of material existence and a power to be harnessed for yogic practice. Yogis have developed a multitude of ways to use sound as a transformational tool on the path of enlightenment. Whether through the chanting of the Vedas, the devotional singing of bhaktas, or the recitation of bija mantras by the hatha yogis, the skillful use of sound runs continuously through yoga’s long, varied history of practice.
Sounding Transformation is Inspired by the sound practices of India’s medieval hatha yogis who used powerful bija (seed) mantras and naada (sound) yoga meditations to awaken different dimensions of psycho- physical awareness. Through the performance of short “sonic episodes” rooted in these hatha yogic practices, Dyer transmutes the Asian Art Museum into a resonant body, enlivening the crown, heart, root, spine, and pranic force of the museum and it's visitors.
The evening culminates the Monumental OM in Samsung Hall, where performers and attendees come to experience with the innate power of yogic sound as a tool of transformation.
For more information on the Yoga: Art of Transformation visit here.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Throughout yogic history sound vibration has been recognized as the foundation of material existence and a power to be harnessed for yogic practice. Yogis have developed a multitude of ways to use sound as a transformational tool on the path of enlightenment. Whether through the chanting of the Vedas, the devotional singing of bhaktas, or the recitation of bija mantras by the hatha yogis, the skillful use of sound runs continuously through yoga’s long, varied history of practice.
Sounding Transformation is Inspired by the sound practices of India’s medieval hatha yogis who used powerful bija (seed) mantras and naada (sound) yoga meditations to awaken different dimensions of psycho- physical awareness. Through the performance of short “sonic episodes” rooted in these hatha yogic practices, Dyer transmutes the Asian Art Museum into a resonant body, enlivening the crown, heart, root, spine, and pranic force of the museum and it's visitors.
The evening culminates the Monumental OM in Samsung Hall, where performers and attendees come to experience with the innate power of yogic sound as a tool of transformation.
For more information on the Yoga: Art of Transformation visit here.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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6:00-6:25pm
6:30-6:40pm 6:55-7:05pm 7:20-7:30pm 7:45-7:55pm 8:10-8:20pm 8:20-8:45pm |
Prelude: Mala Moments
Root Heart Spine/Sushumna Crown Prana The Monumental OM |
Museum-wide
Behind the Museum Store Loge Escalators Bridge Museum-wide Samsung Hall |
